Nobody will ever think you're somebody if you don't think so yourself.

Your dreams must come from your heart's deepest desires. And to know your heart, you must know yourself.

It's different now. I'm one. I stand alone. ~ The Bouncing Souls

The larger issue, the one that sends me to the dictionary of philosophy, if I had one, is the idea of acting like myself. Where do my hands go when I'm myself? Are they in my pockets? I frankly can't remember. I have a tough time just being myself, you know, at parties and such. I start talking to someone and suddenly I know I am no longer myself, that some other self has taken over. ~ The Pleasure of My Company

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don’t you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time, it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourself. ~ Terry Brooks

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~ Miss Manners

While you are wishing to be someone else, someone, somewhere, is wishing to be you.

You attract people by the qualities you display. You keep them by the qualities you possess.

Everybody sees what you appear to be, but few people see what you really are.

In the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself, to consider myself and my condition, to measure the life I'd led so far. I did not know what made me this way. I did not know of any other way I could be. I did not know what was inside me or how I could redeem what was hidden there. There must be a key or person or thing, or song or poem or belief, or old saw that could access it, but they all seemed so far away, and after I drifted further and further into self-absorption, I closed the evening with this desolate thought: there are few takers for the quiet heart. ~ The Pleasure of My Company

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." ~ The Velveteen Rabbit

Just need some time to myself again, need to bring back the old days when I was in control of my life. ~ Taproot

I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful, so unloved for someone so fine. I can feel so boring for someone so interesting, so ignorant for someone of sound mind. ~ Alanis Morisette

And I force myself to wonder that perhaps I am as phony as the world I criticize and that I am the greatest fool of all. ~ Phil Ochs

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory. ~ Arthur Ashe

You are anything you say you are. ~ Bob Dylan
You are only what you are when no one is looking. ~ Robert C. Edwards

I've been searching like everybody else, but I can't see anything different about myself. Sometimes I'm an angel and sometimes I'm cruel, but when it comes to love I'm just another fool.
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment -- the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. ~ Jorge Luis Borges

Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are. ~ J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare